Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.